A co-installer or class installer should supply a custom device property page if its device or class has any individual properties that a user can set. Such properties might include default playback volume for a CD-ROM drive or speaker volume for a modem. Device Manager displays the property page any time a user clicks Properties for the device. For versions of Microsoft Windows NT prior to Windows 2000, users set such information through Control Panel programs. Driver software written for Windows 2000 and later should provide property pages instead.

Although you can write a class installer that provides custom property pages, it is generally preferable to provide this functionality in a co-installer, along with other device-specific or device-class-specific features.

The Windows SDK documentation provides comprehensive documentation of property pages and the Microsoft Win32 functions that manipulate them. This section supplements the Windows SDK documentation with the following information that is specific to device installation: